Question

Can anybody help me understand what is phenocopy syndrome?

Answer 1

@Frostbite @Miracrown

Answer 2

thanks :*

Answer 3

can you find out what is phenocopy syndrome?

Answer 4

Well the word it self seems just to mean that a phenotype is trying to mimick that of a specific genotype.

How it is done in practice I don't know.... yet!

Answer 5

phenocopy: "An individual with a phenotype (often environmentally induced) mimicking one usually produced by a specific genotype."

But in what context is this?

Answer 6

I can see among others this term is used a lot in neurolog. e.i.:
"‘Phenocopy’ frontotemporal dementia (phFTD) patients may clinically mimic the behavioral variant of FTD (bvFTD), but do not show functional decline or abnormalities upon visual inspection of routine neuroimaging."

Answer 7

okay i got it..:D so basically i have two syndromes that are the cause of mutation in one protein eg5. these syndromes they say are phenocpies of syndrome

Answer 8

yolo baby

Answer 9

no...so the mutations mimic the same phenotype

Answer 10

http://www.ftdtalk.org/what-causes-people-to-develop-the-phenocopy-syndrome-of-ftd/

Answer 11

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420680/